Making it easier to use zoneless over zoned is a mistake, though. An even more grave one is making zoneless the default. Unfortunately, that's a mistake that we've made decades ago, and now we have to fix it in a way that deals with all the accumulated mess.

Really, though, this is a recurring lesson in software engineering: don't be in a rush to make something a default just because it's "obvious"; explicit is better than implicit. Strings are another example; we've treated them as arrays of characters for so long that it's still a common default semantics for indexing a string, except now what you often get instead is UTF-8 or UTF-16 code units rather than actual code points. All of which is likely not what you actually need - but what you do need depends so much on the task that it should always be explicit.

You do.

Python does not. It’s all one object and I think that was a terrible idea.